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Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London: John Churchill; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1843.
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BRAID, James (1795-1860)
Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London: John Churchill; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1843.
First edition of the first full-length scientific treatise on hypnotism; authorial presentation copy to George Heron-Braid, the author's uncle. James Braid started his medical practice in Dumfries, but later moved to Manchester where he remained for the rest of his life. His interest in mesmerism and hypnosis began in November 1841 after attending a demonstration by the French mesmerist Charles Lafontaine. Braid decided to scientifically investigate this phenomenon, and before long came to believe that he had discovered the key to its understanding. 'Beginning on 27 November 1841 he set forth his views and demonstrated his methods in a series of five public lectures (reported in detail in the Manchester Guardian and the Manchester Courier); and the ideas and practices there first adumbrated took firmer shape in his only full-length book, Neurypnology, or, The Rationale of Nervous Sleep (1843). Braid held that the "mesmeric sleep" (to which he gave the name 'hypnotism') was not due to the transfer of "mesmeric fluid" or "animal magnetism" from operator to patient, but was a peculiar nervous state, not to be equated with sleep and probably involving changes in cerebral circulation. It was most readily induced by protracted visual fixation of a small bright object held above the eyes and about 8 to 15 inches away' (ODNB). 'As Braid continued to investigate hypnotic phenomena, his ideas of what caused them underwent several radical changes, which are documented in his later works. Braid's methods of hypnosis were published in France circa 1860, where they exerted an important influence on the work of Broca, Charcot, Libeault and Bernheim, whose teachings in turn influenced the work of Sigmund Freud' (Norman). 'In the nineteenth century, hypnosis, shorn of Mesmer's cosmology and perfected by James Braid and J.M. Charcot, became an accepted medical practice' (DSB,Mesmer, IX 327b). GM 4993; Norman 324.
Octavo (172 x 107mm). Half-title, long folding newspaper report on James Braid at the Royal Institution from the Manchester Times pasted onto rear free endpaper (newspapaer report with a few smallsplits and some light creases, pp.187-8 lightly creased, a few other leaves lightly dogeared). Original green cloth (front joint split and backstrip loose with the front cover and backstrip almost detached, corners lightly bumped and extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper to:) – George Heron-Braid (bookplate).
Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London: John Churchill; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1843.
First edition of the first full-length scientific treatise on hypnotism; authorial presentation copy to George Heron-Braid, the author's uncle. James Braid started his medical practice in Dumfries, but later moved to Manchester where he remained for the rest of his life. His interest in mesmerism and hypnosis began in November 1841 after attending a demonstration by the French mesmerist Charles Lafontaine. Braid decided to scientifically investigate this phenomenon, and before long came to believe that he had discovered the key to its understanding. 'Beginning on 27 November 1841 he set forth his views and demonstrated his methods in a series of five public lectures (reported in detail in the Manchester Guardian and the Manchester Courier); and the ideas and practices there first adumbrated took firmer shape in his only full-length book, Neurypnology, or, The Rationale of Nervous Sleep (1843). Braid held that the "mesmeric sleep" (to which he gave the name 'hypnotism') was not due to the transfer of "mesmeric fluid" or "animal magnetism" from operator to patient, but was a peculiar nervous state, not to be equated with sleep and probably involving changes in cerebral circulation. It was most readily induced by protracted visual fixation of a small bright object held above the eyes and about 8 to 15 inches away' (ODNB). 'As Braid continued to investigate hypnotic phenomena, his ideas of what caused them underwent several radical changes, which are documented in his later works. Braid's methods of hypnosis were published in France circa 1860, where they exerted an important influence on the work of Broca, Charcot, Libeault and Bernheim, whose teachings in turn influenced the work of Sigmund Freud' (Norman). 'In the nineteenth century, hypnosis, shorn of Mesmer's cosmology and perfected by James Braid and J.M. Charcot, became an accepted medical practice' (DSB,Mesmer, IX 327b). GM 4993; Norman 324.
Octavo (172 x 107mm). Half-title, long folding newspaper report on James Braid at the Royal Institution from the Manchester Times pasted onto rear free endpaper (newspapaer report with a few smallsplits and some light creases, pp.187-8 lightly creased, a few other leaves lightly dogeared). Original green cloth (front joint split and backstrip loose with the front cover and backstrip almost detached, corners lightly bumped and extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper to:) – George Heron-Braid (bookplate).
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